In our blog we provide you with industry insights on privacy, anonymization, analytics and of course information about our solution Aircloak Insights.
August 22, 2018
Because expert validation of anonymization approaches is really difficult, Aircloak started a bug-bounty program for its product – the Aircloak Attack Challenge. In the wake of this, a new method of measuring privacy was established and can be used for various functions in the future. Nobody has a clue about Anonymization It’s summer 2017 in Helsinki; some of the brightest … read more
July 23, 2018
Data protection is becoming increasingly relevant in the public debate. Numerous examples have recently shown that companies are confronted with serious consequences in the event of data breaches. Ensuring proper data protection is therefore more important than ever. In order to strengthen the rights of the user and to protect privacy, we must generally change how we handle data. The … read more
June 21, 2018
In May 2018 Paul Francis, Director of the Max Planck Insitute for Software Systems and Co-Founder of Aircloak was invited to the LINC (Laboratoire d’Innovation Numérique de la CNIL) in Paris. As a subunit of the French data protection authority CNIL, the lab’s mission is to reflect, inform and share on emerging trends in digital and data usage. They also … read more
May 4, 2018
The attack by the scientists at Imperial College London is purely theoretical. It was never actually carried out and based on our measurements on real databases, the conditions under which it could work are so rare as to be practically non-existent. … read more
April 27, 2018
On April 18 researchers from the Imperial College London and CU Louvain published a vulnerability of diffix-birch. Diffix-birch is the anonymization algorithm jointly designed by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS, www.mpi-sws.org) and Aircloak GmbH (www.aircloak.com). The vulnerability was posted on the academic paper archival system arXiv here. A couple hours after the publication, one of the authors … read more
February 6, 2018
As both the risks and opportunities of data increase, there is a corresponding increase in pressure on companies to build what’s known as “Privacy by Design” or PbD into their data practices. This idea comes from Ann Cavoukian, the former Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. With the notorious GDPR set to take effect in May of 2018, privacy by design will become a legal requirement (rather than a nice to have) for any business subject to the new regulation. … read more
October 16, 2017
Today we are announcing our “Aircloak Privacy Challenge” at the IAPP’s Privacy. Security. Risk. 2017 conference. This unique bounty program rewards privacy professionals, researchers and hackers who manage to break the company’s patented privacy protection methodology, with a total of 15,000 USD. Applications for the challenge to re-identify anonymized data start today. … read more